Goodreads Description:“There are only two
reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said.
“Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every
year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the
soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this
year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His
name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at
Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away
from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But
Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it
all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much
more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven
Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege
around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and
Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but
says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been
warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this
would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the
strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races,
comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and
the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.

My Review:

I
absolutely loved that this book started off with not only a quote
from the master of ravens himself, Edgar Allan Poe but also Oscar
Wilde as well. It really seemed fitting given the title and cover of
the book.

I don't
know why but this book had a slightly different feel to it for me.
Almost like it had been written in a different time, a different
place, a different era even though everything is very much in the
here and now.

It just had
a slightly old world feel to me. A little mysterious and dark at
times. I read this over the Halloween holiday which, I think was a
very fitting time to read it. It just added to the atmosphere of it.

A time when
things go bump in the night and the spirits of those left behind roam
the Earth once again.

This book
turned out to be a lot more complex than I thought it would be. With
tales of the dead, ley lines, kings and wishes granted.

The Raven
boys, Ronan, Alex, Noah and Gansey were fabulous. All very different
in their own ways. A group of boys all very much a mystery in their
own right. With troubles, secrets and pasts that aren't as elite and
fairytale as others would believe them to be. Yet they ban together
and form a bond of friendship that truly is unique.

While you
might think with the synopsis that this was a love story of sorts,
you would be wrong. There is actually very little romance in this.
Instead you are left with lots of mystery, action, magic and a never
ending thread of secrets just waiting to be discovered.

Blue as
well is a mystery. She is unlike anyone else in her family and has a
past that is still out there to be revealed, with a father that she
knows very little about. She too is an oddity that is thrown in with
the Raven boys, yet she too, just seems to fits. She was a missing
link that some how completes the group.

This really
was an intriguing tale that wasn't always what it seemed. It could be
slightly confusing (but in a good way!) at times with all its mystery
and complexities during others with all the tales and secrets slowly
being revealed.

The ending
was nicely done. Leave me wanting to have the sequel in my hands. I
want more of the Raven Boys and I want to know what happens next.

I wanted to love this, I enjoyed it but the magic of Maggie's writing was just not there. I hope it return in book two. I kind of like that it was misleading too, making you believe it was a love story. I agree this felt more like it took place in the 1960's.

I agree! For some reason I had it stuck in my head while I was reading that this book felt really old world, and that I shouldn't have felt like that, because it was clearly in the here and now. I do wish that the Raven Boys had more development, though. For secondary characters, they were great, but I really wanted to know more about them. Maybe my questions will be answered in the next book, though! Great review. :)

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